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While I was doing research for this video, I
wanted to buy The Mensen File, a 500 page

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long book by Nicholas Schreck which tried to
explain the character of Charles Mensen

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from a different perspective.

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I then went on Amazon and bought a book
called The Mensen Files by Accident, a boo...

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by a neoliberal New England upper middle
class psychiatrist named Isaac Kennedy.

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Even though this money investment was
frustrating, it represents the point this...

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to show perfectly.

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Schreck's book is a 500 page analysis of an
actual human being that didn't just slip

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on a banana and became what we know today.

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He's trying to show the reason and internal
logic Mensen had, quotes he said in music

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and stories he wrote and most importantly his
own full length testimony.

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Mensen and Schreck's book was not seen as a
madman but a human, a product of his time.

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For Isaac Kennedy on the other hand, Mensen
is a science object, like a flower to a...

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researcher.

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Schreck probably idolizes Mensen too much,
but his book reveals that if you look at

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Mensen from the perspective of someone who is
speaking like anyone else, like a person

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you actually hold a conversation with, he
makes points, arguments and has reasons for

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his behaviour.

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Suddenly, if you stop treating him like a
science object, their madness retreats and

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his supposed unreason becomes a form of
reason.

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So why is Charles Mensen mad, insane or evil?

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The following video will analyze the history
of madness on the example of Charles Mensen

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and why people like Isaac Kennedy are not
scientists but simply prison guards of the

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normative statuses of madness.

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We will also go into the topic of psychology
as a tool of political suppression and why

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a political accusation of madness is a tool
of defense for the status quo.

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I remember that in my conscience, it's so
alive in me, even just recalling it, I...

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that I had gone so far and there was no
turning back.

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Even if I had wanted to run, even if I had
wanted to leave, I couldn't.

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No way that I've, in any way I've given the
impression that I'm trying to blame anything

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on my parents or blame anything on drugs or
blame anything on rock music or blame...

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on Manson, because I do take complete
responsibility.

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For as twisted as it all got, you know, I
really think that I felt that I had met...

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that by being around him would have a
positive change.

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I never had a long hair before I got busted.

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I never had a beard before I got busted.

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I went to shave and the guy said, no, you
can't shave.

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I said, I need a razor to shave.

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He said, no, you can't shave.

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I said, let me get a haircut.

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He said, no, we don't want to change your
appearance.

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They said I had a great family and I was the
following and leaders and all that.

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It was the followers of leaders bushing kids
out the ranch playing.

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To me.

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Do it!

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They said, how do we do it?

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I said, don't ask me how to do it.

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I don't want to be no prior conspiracy.

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But however you do it, do it and get it done
now.

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And they said, well, we don't know what to
do.

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We'll get a lawyer.

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And then here, Leslie and Patty.

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Every civilization in the world classified
some form of madness.

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As soon as enough of a group of people form
and group up,

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there will be some form of behavior that
negates itself of what is considered normal,

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which then develops into madness and
insanity.

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In medieval times, madness was heavily linked
to spiritualism.

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The madman was not infected or bodily
damaged, but he was possessed.

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A great unease around the topic came up.

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A great unease around the topic came along
with that, because people felt helpless.

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It was not supposed to be solved by physical
help to begin with,

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so they were forced to simply isolate or if
they can't do that, expel the possessed.

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Later, during the Renaissance, the expulsion
of the insane reached the world of...

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Foucault here uses the lyric and funnily
enough, or sometimes real concept, of the...

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A ship filled with madmen eternally sailing
around to achieve a full disconnect from...

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This was needed because of the wandering
insane.

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If you expel him from one city, where does he
go?

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The temporal exchange of the insane was
supposed to be solved by the ship of fools.

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You allow the fools a meaning, which is to
sail around.

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The average person can even spectate this
ship of fools sailing off,

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but in the end, this is done to get rid of
them.

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Out of the city or village wasn't enough.

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They needed to be fully out of the system's
discourse to truly remove them from the...

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The metaphor of the ship admits that there
are some internal rules that the madmen have.

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The ship is led by them, which must imply
that in the ship there is a discourse...

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This changed during the classical period, as
a consequence of the Enlightenment.

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This led to madness being lost in society.

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The lack of its simplification in
spiritualism was gone.

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It required a new place in both science and
morality.

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The great confinement began.

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Here, people were not treated or medically
examined.

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They were locked away, justified by out of
moral behavior.

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Ranging from what we nowadays would consider
schizophrenia,

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to a housewife being too positive on the
concept of independence.

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This confinement is on the surface rooted in
morality and social norms,

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but below that is an ideal of centralized
productivity and labor,

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and failing in that became central to the
modern developing morality.

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The man responsible for the madmen was not
the doctor or the priest anymore, but the...

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This madness is the early start of something
that can be called intuitive madness.

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An instant recognition of the madman based
upon his negation of social norms

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and what the average person would consider
common sense.

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The madman is seen similar to an uncontrolled
beast.

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In this confinement, the madman is associated
with anti-nature.

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What this means is that he breaks the
rationale of what nature is supposed to be.

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The beast is attempted to be cured by forcing
it back into a normal rhythm of nature.

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Eating and sleeping is regulated.

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The people are treated like animals,

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so they can someday find their way back to
rationality out of re-establishing their...

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This shift towards the confinement inside the
core of the city,

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most famously represented by the Paris Asylum
through hard authority,

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started a subtle confrontation with the topic
that was previously lacking.

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The madman also lacked his own expression,

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but through the confinement in the center of
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an uncomfortable awareness of the population
started again,

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in which the madman found his place in
language.

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Through this dark awareness, a slow move
towards an actual process of identificatio...

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and the world of science started to get in
contact with madness around the time of th...

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The first step the world of science took was
the secularization of insanity.

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This happened through this previously
mentioned change of morality.

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The madman was not a spiritually possessed
person anymore,

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but a criminal in the physical world.

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Thereby his body was now to blame.

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His soul was locked inside of a broken body.

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In the early classical time it was seen as a
soul that was sitting inside of a house wi...

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Therefore the body needs to be analyzed,

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and with this process the medical
categorization started.

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The madman became a flower in the garden of
natural sciences.

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The main issue is that the medical madness
was always viewed as the lack of certain...

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not as its own positive thing.

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Now it was required that madness became its
own object with its own positive attributes

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instead of the previous historical versions,
which were just a social negation.

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This is where a strong split happened.

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The intuitive, almost instant recognition of
madness splits and is a completely differe...

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from what Foucault calls the analytical
madness, the madness of the natural sciences.

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In exactly this moment the entire way of
confrontation towards madness changed,

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which brings us to our example of Charles
Manson.

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The case of Charles Manson reflects a very
important thing.

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He had no part in creation of what the public
thinks of him.

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The real Manson and the media cult leader
Manson are completely separate.

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The public only will ever see the cult leader
that got created by journalists and the...

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Therefore the evil and mad person is not
something Manson had any autonomy over.

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Manson, a lot of people, was a very powerful
person.

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Manson, a lot of times, tries to panically
reclaim this by giving signals to the world,

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the most extreme example being him carving a
swastika onto himself.

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But in the end, the public created Charles
Manson, not Manson himself.

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Thereby a discussion on Manson's internal
genius misses the point.

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People like Shrek try to analyze Manson
himself to understand the phenomena of...

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But what they would actually need to analyze
is the social surroundings of them,

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which sadly is now too late.

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Manson seems somewhat self-aware of this.

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In multiple quotes he constantly reaffirms
that the media created him, not himself.

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This is not a new thing however, and is
actually an essential part on how the mad...

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During the late 16th century a split in the
earlier mentioned intuitive identification...

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From the theological individual negation of
one person to the spiritual norm,

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the madness became a mass negation process.

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The madman now got identified by him not
being part of the social group instead of ...

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The authority of declaring the mad got
decentralized.

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From priests and the church to basically
every person that is part of a group that...

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Here is where the problem of the topic
becomes more complicated.

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Intuitive madness doesn't bring the
legitimacy that we know of modern madness,...

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The old madness was one of an evil, a moral
wrongdoing.

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This is completely opposed to the medical
analytical madness, which tried to prove t...

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The natural sciences tried to achieve an
identification of madness towards the...

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There is no evil in catching a cold, equal
there is no evil in becoming insane.

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The intuitive madness and the scientific
analytical madness are firmly opposed to e...

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The terms are too closely tied to each other
to separate.

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The new development, that now occurs, is as
always, the masters and the media stay on ...

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A simple identification that something is of
the common sense.

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And here is where the analytical
identification returns.

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Now the original attempt of the natural
sciences to invalidate this intuitive madn...

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The opening of the field of insanity as a
medical and natural scientific phenomenon,...

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When a group in a restaurant says that they
don't like the food, this is equal in...

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From the masters at least.

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The problem is, that this call out of
intuitive madness is in the head of the...

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Thereby, when some basic housewife calls a
person insane or mad from the 17th century...

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The bleak reality of the madman is obvious
now.

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There is no way of redemption that existed in
the 15th or 16th century through...

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The madman in history before naturalization
was still seen as someone you could talk to.

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The priest actually did that exact thing.

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He tried to make the soul find back into the
mind of the person through a conversation.

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But now, what value in discussion can there
be with a madman?

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Nowadays he is treated like a cancer patient
that just gets locked up and gets medicati...

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The question of what value can there be had
in talking to madness leads us to the conc...

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Foucault calls unreason the reason of the
mad, but it is sadly not that simple.

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It is not just the opposite of reason.

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The problem, Foucault never defines the term
specifically, and a lot of people say this...

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Foucault somewhat hinted on this in this
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Nietzsche is Foucault's clear predecessor,
and Foucault openly admits this.

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In the gay science, Nietzsche uses the same
word on reason, but much clearer and easie...

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Thereby, I also showed that definition, which
is I think far better, but with the...

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In comparison with her, the higher nature is
the more unreasonable, because the noble,...

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Not the truth and certainty is the opposite
of the world of the mad, but the...

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Their souls are seen as a soul sitting inside
of a house with shut windows and locked...

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The concept of unreason during the
Enlightenment realizes that this view is...

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The metaphor now changes to a person with
broken glasses.

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The sane person wears broken glasses and sees
a dazzled picture of reality and admits hi...

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The madman sees the dazzled world, but
acknowledges it is true and that is why he...

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The metaphor Foucault uses to explain
unreason is that when someone looks into t...

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Reason is seeing the sun. Unreason is the
black spot in the middle.

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Unreason makes the person mad, because it
makes what reason doesn't address to its o...

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This doesn't try to portray reason and
unreason as opposites or even as enemies.

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Reason would not only benefit from
interacting with unreason, but requires...

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If unreason addresses the things that reason
is not, then the only way reason can be aw...

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The negative being the objects that are
contained in the perception of unreason.

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Nowadays and in history, the basic necessity
is the love held.

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Most people are aware of the mad, but don't
investigate the mad.

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They only investigate it as much as they need
to to feel security in their own common...

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Sadly, in not realizing that in unreason
there is more to find than simply...

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The confrontation of madness should be a
productive engagement, instead of just...

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The confrontation of madness is probably the
most essential part of the topic, which le...

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This productive engagement we look for is a
rare occurrence, and a lot of people who...

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Don't get me wrong, he is obviously opposed
to Manson, but he is opposed to him as a...

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He digs into Manson when he doesn't answer
clear enough. He disagrees and most...

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What we see here is the sane trying to
identify and investigate the actual person...

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There are many moments where we can see
Manson break and actually consider what...

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And exactly here is where we see the core of
Manson, not the caricature the media creat...

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There are two kinds of interviews Charlie
offers. He is the reflection of whatever t...

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If he is supposed to play the random and
incoherent madman he will play that part, ...

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From an eccentric, loosely connected man he
becomes a serious and self-reflective pers...

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So why does this matter if Snyder is still
negative to Manson in the end anyway?

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The point of this conversation establishes a
basis of mutual understanding.

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When Tom Snyder talks to Manson and Manson
says something wrong or questionable, Snyd...

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Not that he simply is insane and uses a
different set of rules to begin with, like...

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If you discredit a person's ability to play
in the rules of language then you basicall...

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Why talk to a person when disagreement is not
an option?

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And here is the important part. The
assumption of the common sense is not that...

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The second layer to this is that the sane
require the confrontation with the mad to...

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So what is the problem with this
confrontation to determine reason?

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The problem is that this is not a real
confrontation.

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For reason to determine itself it needs to
already predetermine the madness intuitive...

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Then it confronts the madness in a fake
pretense of determining it for the first...

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Madness was already confronted and already
identified, so the actual confrontation is...

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We therefore never see an actual
confrontation, but just a play along, usin...

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These arguments are not constructed on any
process of actual reason, but are built on...

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The consequence of all of this is that the
examination of the mad is already false.

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If a person is accused of being mad, this
pure accusation is the core problem, not t...

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Then when the actual investigation starts and
the insane person is already pre-identifie...

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The reality that follows for the insane is
just being locked in a conversational prison.

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Every disagreement you make is assumed to
come out of working in a different set of...

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This is equal to conversational death.

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There is no way this madman can free himself
out of this problem unless a person that i...

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Charlie is a man that got thrown into obscure
circumstances and always adopted somehow.

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Even his greatest opponents admit that this
is somewhat admirable.

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This is the part where people assume genius,
and he undeniably got a large following...

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And while making this video, I almost fell
into the same trap.

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The real thing, which makes Charlie special,
is explicitly because he is not a genius.

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He never created opportunities himself, he
just acted upon the situations he stumbled...

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Manson is one of the least self-reflective
people I have ever read about.

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Not in the sense of knowing his role in a
small group, but from a greater picture.

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He just kind of played along for everything
that happened to him.

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He undeniably did great, but in the end, he
never really decided that himself.

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In this complete lack of any self-reflection,
Charlie becomes the perfect example of the...

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The kind of socialization a liberal state
intends never really occurred in Manson's...

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From his early youth onwards, for the most
minor of misbehaviors, he got put in juven...

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then, at some nice abuse, lack of actual
family, a spice of rape, and you get a man...

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There is a hint that he is self-aware of this
contradiction, but because of the lack of...

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Or maybe he simply lacks the ability to
verbalize this.

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A sense of a great internal contradiction
comes up here.

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On one hand, the only way a man like Manson
can be creative is if he is disconnected f...

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On the other hand, through this disconnect,
he lacks the rhetorical skills to identify...

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Maybe this is where our job comes in.

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Either way, a hint of reflection is at least
shown in this quote.

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Only through that alienation, he could
attract the kind of people that needed him...

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Alienated people are attracted to other
people who lack the science of institution...

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Now we understand why Manson worked so well
in the 70s, but this leaves the topic open...

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Why was there such an amount of alienated
people to begin with?

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Where does the sudden rise of the insane come
from?

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To understand this, we need to go back in
history.

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During the 18th century, the number of
diagnosed insane started rising rapidly.

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And from the 18th century onward, the number
of people that needed internment has been...

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The common answer from the average
neoliberal, white, female, upper-middle-cl...

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But if this was the case, then we should have
seen a transfer of some socially unfit gro...

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What should have happened is a bunch of
social undesirables not useful for society...

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But this is fiction. What really happened is
not a re-identification, but a complete ne...

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Now the real question of modern psychology is
where these groups were before...

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And this is exactly what medical psychology
is more or less passively ignoring, becaus...

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While this sounds like medical psychology is
a complete hoax, this misses the point. Th...

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The reason why it stays unanswered is because
the answer is not in the natural sciences,...

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The last 200 years of identification reached
its peak in the neoliberal atomization of ...

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Modern psychology is panically trying to
avoid the political conclusion and hides i...

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The current ruling ontology denies any
possibility of a social causation of menta...

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The chemico-biologicalization of mental
illness is of course strictly commensurate...

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Considering mental illness, an individual
chemico-biological problem, has enormous...

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First, it reinforces capitalism's drive
towards atomistic individualization. You a...

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Second, it provides an enormously lucrative
market in which multinational pharmaceutic...

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We can cure you with our SSRIs. It goes
without saying that all mental illnesses a...

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If it is true, for instance, that depression
is constituted by low serotonin levels, wh...

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When the only answer young people have to
alienation is always connected to fully...

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At that point, they basically become the
mental illness and nothing else.

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A more appealing alternative is that they
seek out places where the alienation could...

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The fact that social surroundings influence
your mental state is nothing new anyway, a...

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But psychology at most offers that you switch
schools or jobs, adjust your family or...

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Where can you go if that is the root of your
alienation?

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The answer of the natural sciences is to just
become complacent, and psychiatry gives yo...

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But Charlie represented the alternative to
this.

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There is a great irony here, how a man who
spent his entire life in the correctional...

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Manson became an alien. He was more alien to
the 70s than ET could have been. And only...

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When a horde of young people look up to you,
why not give them advice? Why not allow th...

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The social oppositions to those questions
were oppositions Manson never learned.

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The idea of master planner Manson is
ridiculous out of its own premises.

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If Manson had the grand capability of grand
planning, he wouldn't have become the pers...

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At most, he is an accidental dictator rolling
with it and reflecting what the family wan...

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None of the supposed greatness he has comes
from himself, but from the institutions...

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And so they're blaming the capitalism and
embracing the socialism instead of realizi...

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There's not a ton of research into the
demography of the alt-right, but there may...

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What does all this philosophical drivel and
reconnecting to Charles Manson mean?

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Well, this video idea got started because I
was debating some German social democrat...

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And I asked myself where this reductionism
came from.

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Then I looked up how mainstream media treated
the political fringes like bruh or hardlin...

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If you watch a shitty YouTube documentary
that always have the title of I was a form...

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The only psychological question that would
actually matter in these discussions would...

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If you explain a rational, this could be
debated, which implies it could be right o...

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This is obviously uncomfortable, so it's
avoided in public discourse.

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If the point can be bolt down to one term,
it's about silencing or censorship or...

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I'm not implying some injuring of an
intrinsic right of speech, but simply that...

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And the most effective term to stop you
beyond anything else is not jailing, becau...

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When you are branded as insane, this implies
that discourse is impossible with you, and...

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Because an insane person has no rational, has
no autonomy over their thoughts. It's like...

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Everything needs to be addressed besides the
actual content of your words.

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Why did I relate this to Manson then? To show
that alienation is not solved by escapism.

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If Rockwell was the person needed to refute
movementarianism, then Manson was what is...

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You can't escape liberal capitalism, even if
you make a small farm.

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The cure to alienation is not to make a
movement trying to debate the infection, i...

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In the end, Manson is a representation of a
ladder that we had to climb on only to...

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Manson was a prophet telling us that his
prophecies are not the way to go. He was a...

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Maybe someday he gets a recognition for
helping us achieve an understanding of wha...

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I don't think I've been responsible for as
much as you people want to lay on me.

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Alright, somewhere out there, somewhere,
there's at least one son that we know of...

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You talk to that kid. What are you going to
say to him?

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You've got to catch it on your own, boy.
Train's hard. The road's rough.

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And that's it.

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That's all I knew. That's all anyone ever
told me.

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Alright.

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And you want to hear something?

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Yeah.

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He'll do it better than me.

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Do what?

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Whatever he does. He'll do it a little
better. Kids do, don't they?

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Yeah.

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I've been for a while. I've been for a while.
On a winter's day. On a winter's day. I'd ...

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Stuck into a church. I passed along the way.